Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-17

ouD aud yet the VIII OF the whole
shoa. His mother hiss no patience with
HIM ann never hAl. The trouble with
Pat ID that ls wanted to rule and govern
himself. He thinks he has been held
in restraint by his mother long enough.
He leads q very hard life, working and
digging in his potatoe row all day In the
hot sun and then going home at night
to tend his pigs or drive them to mar
.ket. There can be no doubt
that be is Levy sometimes, but
1t isenough to make him 80 to think
that every cent he earns is going to pay !
some outrageous tax OF clothe some
other boy. Isit any wonder that he
feels at times like scattering a little
gunpowder or dynamite promlsonously
In the shoe? Mrs. England thinks she
has hit upon a grand plan nov for SUBJ
DUNG Pat. She calls it by the high
sounding name OF coercion. But Pat
knows what that means only too well
and feels it to be o terrible outrage, as it
certainly is. His troublea must soon
come to On end, however, fol. how caniit
be otherwise when he has two such grand
good men working for him.
But for once in her lite Mrs. England
was completely baffied by one OF her
children and his name is Sam. When
| Sam was quite . small child be did not
want to 60 to church with his mother,
but she insisted and made lie 30 miser-
able for him that he. could endure it no
longer. So he packed up secretly, took
a clumsy old boat and padded his way
across the water to another country.
built himself another shoe. Although
l u y, yyo non arol tv q uoru dpti}nl ar1
| obedient child he wonld worship God
how he pleased, when be pleased and
where he pleased. After he had been
in this rev country q few years his
mother began to treat him very badly
indeed. She made him buy all his clothes
and all his manufactured articles from
her. He rebelled and wore homespun.
| Why, he did not have the rights and
privileges of the lowest Of his mothers
childrenl As she 10 now forcing her
opium on John Chinaman she then fore.
ed tea on Sam and when he refused it
she Was almost o mind to strangle him
by pouring it down his throat. These
and numerous other indiginities were
heaped on poor Sam until he rebelied
and ever came to blows, which he APP
piled with such ylgor that his mother
was glad to let the upstart go. he was
little Sammy England nc longer but an
independent man, whom by his
wonderful prudence and bravery
the people have honored by
giving HIM the dignified title OF Uncle
Sam. There was q time when he had no
credit, but now you cannot mention the
name in the whole universe in whom the
people pns more trust and confidence. Z
OF Mrs Englandis many other child
rem ! will speak Of but one more,
Canada. Canada IS q bright, active boy,
yet in his teens, never without his fur
cap, mittens and o good warm scarf. He
likes cold weather, weather in which he
can skate, go for miles on his snow shoes,
coast or 60 tobogganing. One OF his
greatest pleasures is fishing, and when
he annot go out in his boat during the
winter he will chop a. hole in the ice and
fish for hours through that. He is a
very cautious little fellow and will meyer
take any important steps without first
consulting his mother and getting her
advice and consent, Is Canada going to
have q fight with Uncle Sam about
catching those fish? And if he does is
Mrs. England going TO help him out 2
Ii she does help him Uncle Sam will
not suffer for help either. Just give
Mrs. Russia the chance and see what she
will do. And all she wants is the chance,
II Uncle Sam has nj army, no navy, nc
coast defence and no big guns, he can
soon supply himself. He has done il
before and he a do it again. The
tables will then be turned and Mrs.
England will be the one to be thorough
ly whipped and put to bed. She had
better watch herself and keep out OF
trouble with Uncle Sam for where would
she get her beef Cor breakfast, her bread
for dinner or her cotton to make her
dresses ii il were nor for him?
Mrs. England is fast growing old and
her shoe is worr at the toe, rEn down al
the heel and spreads ave o great deal OF
ground, or, as the poet has said Of it
With the toe at the foot of the Himalayas
And the heel At the north pole unmoved and
undaunted.
The great SIM himself can scarca manage to ge
In q day and o night from the heel to the toe
Although il is SO large Uncle Sam
is fast catching up with il and will in
time spread over as much ground, If no
more, than Mrs. England, so that the
children here tonight will hear Mothe,
Goose singing to the future generations
Of children:
i LAShc Was Hh \ 1l1u WuO llVGu III u bQOe H
He had q good many ohildren but he always
knew what to do
To some he gave broth and to Dome he gave
bread
And sent them all happy and contented to bed,
Poker In Paris.
Paris Morning News: One OF the most
extraordinary games of poker on record
was played in Paris last week at q private
house. The ante was q loais and the
game unlimited. Late in the evening
one, an American, who raised his OPP.
ponent. Over 100, 600 francs were il the